You are cordially invited for this symposium in which we celebrate the publication of the book ‘Disability Worlds’, from Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp. Faye and Rayna will present the book which is set in the US context, Leonie Dronkert, Annerienke Fioole, and Patrick McKearny, will present the ideas and inspirations they take from this work. The discussion will center the notions of disability world making practices and the making of community through forging “crip kinships”. The discussants will explore through their own fieldwork what disability world making practices are possible and how we may conceptualise these.

Exploring disability world making practices beyond the limits of the real

In her presentation ‘Exploring disability world making practices beyond the limits of the real’, Leonie Dronkert will reflect on Disability Worlds in conversation with her creative collaboration with Olof ten Have, a disabled filmmaker with whom she joined forces to make a science fiction film in The Netherlands.

Querying the dynamic hierarchies of kinship configurations, Annerienke Fioole will take up Disability Worlds’ insights in connection to her research with variable families in rural Morocco to explore the dis/abled creation of family ties and the centrality of attached belongings.

Patrick McKearney will reflect on Disability Worlds through research with people with intellectual disabilities and their families in India. He will focus on their efforts to build new social infrastructures around intellectual disability in relation to his own attempts to do the same.

Annekatrin Skeide, Charité Berlin, will be discussiant, bringing in a care studies perspective.

The session will be chaired by Jeannette Pols.